The Mono developers have released Mono 2.8, a major update to the implementation of Microsoft’s .NET technology for Linux and other platforms. Miguel de Icaza, project lead, said in his blog that the release “contains ten months worth of new features, stability fixes, performance work and bug fixes”. The Mono C# compiler is now a complete implementation of the C# 4.0 specification and defaults to operating as a 4.0 based platform.\r\n\r\nA new Generational GC (Garbage collector) offers better performance for applications which consume and reuse large amounts of memory; benchmarkingshows CPU use is now much more predictable. Support for LLVM has now been marked as stable with a mono-llvm command allowing server applications to run with an LLVM back end, potentially offering greater performance; JIT compilation with LLVM is described as “very slow” in the release notes and therefore only currently suits long-lived server processes. […]